Preston Bezant
Austin, Texas
Senior product designer, 10+ years, enterprise product experiences at Visa and Lowe's and 0→1 products since. I start by working out who actually has to use the thing and what they can act on — then I build it, because a prototype you can put in front of someone answers questions a spec never will.
I work best when the problem is ambiguous and something real needs to exist at the end of it.
Product Design
10+ years of UX, product thinking, and design systems — enterprise at Visa & Lowe's and 0→1 products.
Research & Iteration
Competitive analysis, field research, and testing against real conditions — I define who I'm designing for, then keep going back to check.
Designs That Get Built
AI-native workflows — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity — turn my designs into deployed prototypes I can actually put in front of people.
Design Challenge
Mission Control — Agentic Developer Portal
Six divergent design directions explored, one shipped. A full-fidelity, working prototype for an AI-native developer portal — streaming agent traces, real-time execution, and PR review built for dev handoff.
AI Contract Review — Triage & Trust
The brief asked for one low-fidelity frame. The real question — where AI findings should live relative to the document — is not answerable with one frame, so I carried four competing layouts through the same three states and annotated the tradeoff on each. It ends on the three things I would test first, not on a recommendation.
Product Design + Engineering
Sense Engine — RTLS Operator Platform
The hardware existed. The data went nowhere. Three vendor protocols, 200 devices, 50,000 sq ft — and nothing a warehouse operator could act on. Designed the system, directed the build, deployed it.
Who Reps Me? — Every Official Who Represents You
Google shut down the only free API for local officials in April 2025. Everyone else charges for the data. This rebuilds the whole civic-data layer on free tiers and static files — no database, no server, no paid APIs, no LLM spend.
Projects
Software systems, IoT hardware, firmware, and production apps.
